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Trump Takes on the Pope, and the Pope Gets Trumped

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19.04.2026

Let’s call out the blasphemy in the middle of the room right away.

On Easter 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social a message with cursing, then added: “Praise Allah!” President Trump uses colorful language, and I don’t like it.

So what? I didn’t elect a pastor. I elected a President. I don’t want a chief executive weak in the knees but acts presidential. Trump is getting things done like no one else. He was not praising the false god of Islam, anyway, but mocking the Iranian Ayatollah’s fanatical regime.

Next, let’s dispense with the false and flabby notion that Trump thinks that he’s Jesus.

First, President Trump did not turn himself into an AI version of Christ on April 12, 2026. He simply reposted an AI image that another supporter had created two months ago.

Trump shared it within the timeframe of his tiff with Pope Leo XIV (more on that later), but he did not blaspheme Christ Jesus. In fact, he does not blaspheme our Lord and Savior, since he has done more than any president to restore and promote the Christian faith: inviting pastors and teachers to pray in the White House, setting up religious liberty commissions, ending DOJ lawfare against people of faith, etc. This year, Trump was the first president to formally state the Gospel in his Easter message: “For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son…”

Admittedly, I was initially offended by the picture. Upon closer look, he was clearly showing himself, with his head and hairdo, with a ball of light in his hand, healing someone on the bed. Around him, we can see soldiers, medical care providers, and other public servants.

The more that I pondered that picture, the funnier it got. Trump’s sense of humor reminds me of eerie yet genius comic Andy Kaufman and Vegas roaster Chief Don Rickles. Kauffman played the outlandish lounge........

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